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On Mon, 14 May 2007 23:19:39 -0500,
Erik Funkenbusch <erik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, 14 May 2007 20:50:54 -0700, Jim Richardson wrote:
>
>> It's time for MS to put up or shut up. Show the patents they claim Linux
>> infringes, and then either the coders can fix it, or the legal beagles
>> can challange the patent in court.
>>
>> Absent MS providing concrete info of this nature, it is FUD, pure and
>> simple.
>
> That depends entirely on whether or not their claims are valid.
> Failure to support a claim doesn't mean the claim isn't valid. You
> should know that.
Without hard, concrete info, it's FUD, pure and simple. If they provide
concrete claims and info, it may still be FUD, or it may not, but absent
that, it *is* FUD.
Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt. Pretty much a textbook definition. MS at
their old tricks.
Time for MS to put up, or shut up. Show us the patents they claim are
infringed, show us the bits that they claim infringe them. Then the
code, if it does infringe, can be fixed to not do so, or perhaps, the
patents themselves be challanged, and invalidated.
I will not pay one red cent to MS, neither directly, nor indirectly, for
patent/licence claims until such a time as they have provided that
information. I won't buy a distro from a company that does, absent said
information on what is alleged to infringe what.
(good sigmonster)
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Jim Richardson http://www.eskimo.com/~warlock
"Even if you can deceive people about a product through misleading
statements, sooner or later the product will speak for itself."
- Hajime Karatsu
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